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A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t: | A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t: | ||
* | *We have eliminated boom and bust. — © Gordon Brown, April 2000. | ||
*How you value businesses without reference to cashflow or profitability — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[dotcom bust]] in 2000 | *It’s the end of history. We [[libtard]]s have won. — © Francis Fukuyama, 1992 | ||
*We have efficiently allocated risk to those best placed to bear it through [[credit derivatives]] — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[global financial crisis]], 2004-8 | *How you value businesses without reference to cashflow or profitability. — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[dotcom bust]] in 2000 | ||
*Mark-to-market accounting of future income streams in a market that doesn’t exist yet is sensible — © [[Arthur Andersen]]<ref>Who? Ed.</ref> [[Jeff Skilling]] and the crazy gang at [[Enron]], continually up to October 2001 | *We have efficiently allocated risk to those best placed to bear it through [[credit derivatives]]. — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[global financial crisis]], 2004-8 | ||
*The [[Singularity]] is definitely going to happen, and the universe will wake up, rewriting the laws of physics as we know them etc. © {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}, 2005. | *Mark-to-market accounting of future income streams in a market that doesn’t exist yet is sensible. — © [[Arthur Andersen]]<ref>Who? Ed.</ref> [[Jeff Skilling]] and the crazy gang at [[Enron]], continually up to October 2001 | ||
*[[Software is eating the world]] | *The [[Singularity]] is definitely going to happen, and the universe will wake up, rewriting the laws of physics as we know them etc. — © {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}, 2005. | ||
*The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! [[Chess]]-playing supercomputers! | *[[Software is eating the world]]. — © Marc Andreessen, 2009 | ||
*The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! [[Chess]]-playing supercomputers! — © {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, {{br|A World Without Work}} | |||
*Everyone is going to be nice to each other now Generation Z is in control and we have taken out and shot all the old white men. — © Every millennial, and millennial apologist ever, 2018 -. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[The dog in the night time]] | *[[The dog in the night time]] | ||
*[[Technological unemployment]] | *[[Technological unemployment]] | ||
Revision as of 08:47, 6 August 2020
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Stiffen your sinews if you hear this one.
A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t:
- We have eliminated boom and bust. — © Gordon Brown, April 2000.
- It’s the end of history. We libtards have won. — © Francis Fukuyama, 1992
- How you value businesses without reference to cashflow or profitability. — © every investment banker ever, in the run-up to the dotcom bust in 2000
- We have efficiently allocated risk to those best placed to bear it through credit derivatives. — © every investment banker ever, in the run-up to the global financial crisis, 2004-8
- Mark-to-market accounting of future income streams in a market that doesn’t exist yet is sensible. — © Arthur Andersen[1] Jeff Skilling and the crazy gang at Enron, continually up to October 2001
- The Singularity is definitely going to happen, and the universe will wake up, rewriting the laws of physics as we know them etc. — © Ray Kurzweil, 2005.
- Software is eating the world. — © Marc Andreessen, 2009
- The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! Chess-playing supercomputers! — © Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work
- Everyone is going to be nice to each other now Generation Z is in control and we have taken out and shot all the old white men. — © Every millennial, and millennial apologist ever, 2018 -.
See also
- ↑ Who? Ed.